Rsia to Gays: Shut Up and Disappear - The Bulwark

Contents:

• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY
• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR
• CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE
• ICE SKATERS PLAN TO STAND AGAST RSIA'S GAY LAW AT OLYMPICS
• MAJORY OF RSIANS BELIEVE GAYS NSPIRG TO STROY UNTRY'S VALU, POLL FDS

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv. In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year. In a book that me out earlier this year, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, thor Jane Ward argued that male sexualy is a lot more fluid than most of are willg to acknowledge.

SORRY, RSIA, BUT TCHAIKOVSKY WAS DEFELY GAY

" she prevly told said, adult entertament publicist Mike Stabile told Mic that he believ the sexualy of a gay-for-pay porn star is likely to be a b more flexible than your average joe. "They seemed to have more of a fluid sexualy, or were jt extremely sexual, even if they intified as straight their private liv, " he said of the gay-for-pay actors he's worked wh the past. "Of urse, there are some who are jt bee of the money, guys who sist on havg loud cellphone nversatns wh their girliends while on-set, or beg homophobic.

That's a ltle more plited, as some believe that gay men's tenncy to fetishize straight men engagg gay sex stems om a ep-rooted place of self-loathg or shame.

"Bee of ternalized homophobia (which typilly looms large before and durg the early g-out procs), they're more often lookg for men who act mascule, " thor Joe Kort wrote 2013 for the Huffgton Post. For stance, when gay-for-pay porn star Chris Tyler was asked by the Village Voice what the harst part of his job was, he answered:"Takg a 10-ch-pl dick. Takg to Twter, SpaceGhostPurrp wrote, 'I'm tired of holdg my tongue back 2011 I was ved to dis party new York by asap rocky I was pull up w my girl n sh and I was on da phone like yo bh where u at I don't see he was like "YO LOOK DOWN IM RIGHT HERE" Next thg u know he da pool bb a mans ass [sic]' producer went on to say, 'SO IF U WANNA KNOW WHY "ASAP ROCKY AND ASAP and EVERY RAPPER" HATE ME so much 's bee I stopped hang w him becuase he didnt tell me dat he was homosecual on da low and I felt like he lied bout his life so n orr for him 2 keep his secret, he got me black listed mic [sic]' ntued, 'So all the rappers that took his si and went agast are basilly the on that had to go agast so I womt expose their secret, bee I did lerally.

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

Rsia's World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg publicPublished: 9:00, 28 Jun 2018Updated: 9:02, 28 Jun 2018RUSSIA'S World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg public. LGBT rights groups say homophobic attacks have rocketed sce print Vladimir Put approved the ntroversial law outlawg the promotn of a gay liftyle to mors 2013. Although sexual activy between gay people was crimalised 1993, homosexual upl are not eligible for the legal protectns offered to heterosexuals Rsia.

Dpe beg slammed for the recent crease social discrimatn, crim and vlence agast homosexuals, big ci such as Mosw and Sat Petersburg are said to have thrivg LGBT muni. In a report issued April 2012, a panel of five expert advisers to the Uned Natns Human rights Council nmned the wave of torture and killgs of gay men Chechnya. Stotsko said he had exploed a loophole the gay marriage law, cg another law that means Rsia regnis marriag registered abroad.

In January 2016, state Duma rejected a proposal by the munist Party to punish people who publicly show their homosexualy wh f and arrts.

RSIA TO GAYS: SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR

But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen. In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored. The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk.

Yuri Arabov told a Rsian newspaper that his adaptatn of the 19th century poser's life won't foc on his sexualy bee “ is far om a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual, " The New York Tim also said that films that "advertise" homosexualy are "outsi the sphere of art, " and that only "philist" thk the poser was gay. Well, sorry Rsia, but Tchaikovsky — along wh dozens of other Rsian cultural ins — were gay, as many scholars would readily Tchaikovsky (poser)Tchaikovsky posed two of the most qutsentially Rsian ballets — Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

Harry wr (emphasis add): The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexualy was supprsed Rsia by the Soviets, and has only recently bee wily known post-Soviet Rsia.

CHECHNYA: ESPED GAY MEN SENT BACK BY RSIAN POLICE

] Many of Tchaikovsky's most timate relatnships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Soonov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov. For stance, Wiley pots out that Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, to the pot that he femised the nam of the young men he nsorted wh, and ed his own – signg a letter to his brother (who was also gay) "Petrola". The Sexual Labyrth of Nikolai Gogol, by fellow gay Rsian Simon Karlsky, argued that evince of Gogol's homosexualy uld be found his works.

In her review of the book for The New York Review of Books, Helen Muchnic laid out Karlsky's argument this way: His this, brief outle, is that Gogol, unable to be himself a world where homosexualy was proscribed, ncealed his clatns, attempted to supprs his emotns, projected his secretivens unnscly the ceptns, mystifitns, and symbols of his stori and plays, and ultimately broke down unr the stra, g his art and stroyg himself.

ICE SKATERS PLAN TO STAND AGAST RSIA'S GAY LAW AT OLYMPICS

Here's an excerpt om her 1924 poem "Dreams": Only dreams, wh a broken off moan, so as not to die her sleep, on such a mellifluo wave, above this sky-blue drowng, her whole cht heavg eely wh breath, my soul is published several llectns of poems until censorship unr the Soviet ernment emed her works "unlawful" Nabokov (brother of Vladimir Nabokov)Vladimir Nabokov, bt known for his 1955 novel Lola, was a known homophobe. Grossman wrote: Sergei’s homosexualy would st a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and would also, ultimately, be the e of his horrifyg and untimely ath. It st a shadow over Vladimir’s life as well: He loved his brother, but whatever else he may have been — a brilliant wrer, a lovg father — Vladimir was a nfirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a nstant source of shame, nfn and regret to died a Nazi labor mp, while Vladimar went on to wre several novels.

Meanwhile, gay characters appear throughout Vladimir's work, possibly regnn of his article is om the archive of our partner The Wire. Vladimir Put’s anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual exprsn – but Sochi’s openg ceremony featured some of the most proment homosexuals ternatnal history.

The Sochi 2014 Wter Olympics openg ceremony referenced proment gay Rsians om the field of lerature, ballet, mic and film – cludg Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Vaslav Nijsky and Sergei Eisenste.

MAJORY OF RSIANS BELIEVE GAYS NSPIRG TO STROY UNTRY'S VALU, POLL FDS

The script for a film about Tchaikovsky’s life, which is beg ma wh Rsian ernment fundg, was reported to have been rewrten to exclu any suggtn that the poser was gay. He was a ntroversial character Rsia who phed the boundari of what was permissible ballet, cludg referenc to homosexualy and masturbatn.

Diaghilev was openly gay, and was scribed by the poser Nilas Nabokov as “perhaps the first grand homosexual who asserted himself and was accepted as such by society”. Battlhip Potemk director Sergei Eisenste, a pneer of the e of montage film, is believed to have been gay, though he was married to a woman until his ath 1948. A movement Rsia is seekg Ivan the Terrible’s nonisatn – his homosexual leangs are jt one barrier to the Rsian Orthodox Church agreeg to this.